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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:20:47 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fast clock with SMP kernel 
Message-ID:  <199709021820.MAA00339@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Aug 1997 16:51:26 CDT." <19970831165126.12973@futuresouth.com> 

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Hi,

> We have a TYAN TAHOE-II motherboard with a single Pentium-II-266 processor.
> When using 3.0-970807-SNAP with SMP options, the clock seems to run about
> twice as fast as it should.  SMP-GENERIC seems to work fine.  If I disable
> options SMP in our config file it works fine too.  Is this because we only
> have one processor, or is this a different problem?

I'm surprised it runs at all on one CPU!  If you disable options SMP you get
a UP kernel, so thats not relevant.  The real question is why the difference
between 3.0-970807-SNAP with SMP options and SMP-GENERIC.  I have no answer.

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